Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Scheduled Tasks

2010-03-30 Thread James Carlson
whether a directory is empty, it depends on the shell you're using, but one way to check emptiness is with Perl: perl -e 'opendir D, $ARGV[0]; $i++ while (readdir D); print $i\n;' \ directoryname That'll print 2 or less if the directory is empty. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W

Re: [osol-discuss] failure upgrading from snv_131 to snv_134

2010-03-14 Thread James Carlson
On 3/14/2010 3:56 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: James Carlson wrote: How is it that a bug fixed back in build 127 didn't affect me in build 131 but started affecting me in build 134 ... ? The great renaming brought it back to life in 133: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=14906

[osol-discuss] failure upgrading from snv_131 to snv_134

2010-03-13 Thread James Carlson
, but all were old (build 128 or older) and didn't seem to address this scenario. Is this a known problem? Did I do something wrong during the upgrade? What should I have done to recover? Should I file a bug? If so, what sort of information would be helpful in diagnosing the failure? -- James

Re: [osol-discuss] failure upgrading from snv_131 to snv_134

2010-03-13 Thread James Carlson
On 03/13/10 18:44, Shawn Walker wrote: On 03/13/10 03:10 PM, James Carlson wrote: I just attempted to upgrade my OpenSolaris build 131 AMD64 system to build 134, and failed miserably. Here's what happened: First, since this step is normally required, I tried to do pkg install SUNWipkg

Re: [osol-discuss] failure upgrading from snv_131 to snv_134

2010-03-13 Thread James Carlson
On 03/13/10 22:44, Alan Coopersmith wrote: James Carlson wrote: I was able to get to 134 by using bootadm update-archive but it looks like I'm going back to 131, because there's a lot that just plain doesn't work right in 134. In particular, less and telnet seem to be terribly broken -- both

Re: [osol-discuss] [networking-discuss] link aggregating

2009-10-12 Thread James Carlson
in that way. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W carls...@workingcode.com ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Permission/Misc Questions

2009-06-15 Thread James Carlson
a windows/linux machine? Right now im using VPN through the gnome daemon though I would like something that does not require the user to be logged in locally on the server. I'd use ssh with the automatic X11 redirection, but there's also VNC for those who like such things. -- James Carlson

Re: [osol-discuss] Have read-only mount option for /usr

2009-06-15 Thread James Carlson
sure that (at least apart from OpenSolaris IPS), using a split root/usr layout has been supported. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N

Re: [osol-discuss] Have read-only mount option for /usr

2009-06-15 Thread James Carlson
. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Huawei E220 hot plugging and USB serial freesing problem drivers for snv111

2009-06-12 Thread James Carlson
it. I'm just making sure all of you folks are talking. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible ZFS corruption?

2009-06-12 Thread James Carlson
Joel Robison writes: ::stack mutex_enter+0xb() metaslab_free+0x68() zio_dva_free+0x1f() zio_execute+0x60() zio_nowait+9() Looks a lot like CR 6794136, which was fixed in build 115. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network

[osol-discuss] random OpenSolaris complaints [was Re: StudioExpress-sol-x86-2009-03-pkg.sh installer woes]

2009-06-12 Thread James Carlson
hoping we can get back to arguing about GPLv3 or Sun's buy-out. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWglrt prerequisite

2009-06-12 Thread James Carlson
used to produce it) are controlled by an entity outside of Sun. There are a few things we have that are encumbered in one way or another. In some cases, we can freely share the binaries, but not the source. In others, the binaries must be individually licensed. -- James Carlson, Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Huawei E220 hot plugging and USB serial freesing problem drivers for snv111

2009-06-11 Thread James Carlson
with the original poster. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Few questions w.r.t. OS 2009.06 ZFS mirroring and installation.

2009-06-04 Thread James Carlson
drive? How it'll affect (1)? (I'm talking here about options provided by the livecd installer) If you don't have anything special on the drive and don't plan to have GRUB entries for different OSes, it's simpler to say whole drive. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl

Re: [osol-discuss] open solaris on lenovo

2009-06-04 Thread James Carlson
and/or UNIX in general. There happens to be a pretty good book specifically about OpenSolaris available now. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 missing SXCE b114 desktop applications

2009-06-02 Thread James Carlson
contents. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Live Upgrade question

2009-05-29 Thread James Carlson
please give me a hint? SunOS hostname 5.11 snv_110 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris That could be either Solaris Express or OpenSolaris. What does pkg say? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS

Re: [osol-discuss] Live Upgrade question

2009-05-29 Thread James Carlson
also supports ZFS, and also does the snapshot trick. So it's much faster and more usable there, but doesn't quite have the same conceptual simplicity as you're describing.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

Re: [osol-discuss] Live Upgrade question

2009-05-29 Thread James Carlson
of it tells you whether you have the OpenSolaris distribution or you have SX:CE. (Other distributions may also have indistiguishable uname output.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02

Re: [osol-discuss] NEW desktop

2009-05-28 Thread James Carlson
.) It shouldn't be this hard ... -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] packet forwarding, one port in, another port out

2009-05-28 Thread James Carlson
. If you really want iptables-like difficulty in this test, you could use the equivalent functionality in IP Filter -- the to keyword should do what you're asking. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781

Re: [osol-discuss] NAT router.

2009-05-28 Thread James Carlson
, but there are a lot of places for silly mistakes. Based on my experience, the part that's easiest to get wrong is the packet filtering. Once you cross that hurdle, all else is easy. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

Re: [osol-discuss] Q: possible to turn OpenSolaris into a Wifi access point?

2009-05-27 Thread James Carlson
of the interfaces I've used don't seem to support ad-hoc mode, either.) laptop-discuss would be the right place to ask about AP functionality. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212

Re: [osol-discuss] Some trouble with Samba Snapshots

2009-05-19 Thread James Carlson
a bug. The scripts under /lib/svc/method/* aren't intended to be configuration interfaces (so changing this is _not_ supported and _will_ fail on upgrade), and, at least in my opinion, there's no good reason at all to have two features that are so obviously in conflict by default. -- James Carlson

Re: [osol-discuss] Question about ZFS Send

2009-05-15 Thread James Carlson
of that same interface. The same sort of locking-down just hasn't been done with ZFS yet. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442

Re: [osol-discuss] How do I set up a DSL or (TCP / I.Pv4) connection for OpenSolaris 2008.11?

2009-05-14 Thread James Carlson
/ - If you're having networking problems, I recommend posting to networking-disc...@opensolaris.org, rather than to this list. The opensolaris-discuss list is a rather noisy one, and not everyone involved with networking is on it. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] files stored

2009-05-14 Thread James Carlson
for that application or perhaps use a debugger or tracing tool (such as mdb, dtrace, or truss) to find out what the application is doing. It's possible that the file in question is kept only in memory, and never stored on disk anywhere. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl

Re: [osol-discuss] Question about ZFS Send

2009-05-14 Thread James Carlson
. Unless these two systems are running exactly the same OS build and are upgraded in lock-step fashion, you may run into problems. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212

Re: [osol-discuss] Regular panics: BAD TRAP: type=e

2009-05-12 Thread James Carlson
Marco Stadler writes: I did some days ago, but nobody seems to care about. What can I do now? File a bug. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757

Re: [osol-discuss] root changes to xorg.conf?

2009-05-11 Thread James Carlson
helpful for newbie like me :) Lots of thanks to you for your time of providing the materials! You can also do this: pfexec pkg install SUNWsudo ... then you'll have sudo on OpenSolaris, just like on other systems. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] process state varies from linux to solaris

2009-05-11 Thread James Carlson
be the same as on Linux, should it? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] Dual Boot issue.

2009-05-08 Thread James Carlson
into the new Ubuntu one. I don't believe that's true. The OpenSolaris GRUB can read and boot from ZFS, but I don't think the Ubuntu one can do that. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS

Re: [osol-discuss] Regular panics: BAD TRAP: type=e

2009-05-07 Thread James Carlson
. Have you tried contacting zfs-disc...@opensolaris.org? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] How to track SSH bad log in attempts / brute force attacks in Solaris?

2009-05-06 Thread James Carlson
you've specified the -e or -d (debugging) options when invoking, calls syslog(). You should see the messages showing up as auth.notice in the default case, which you can redirect to any file you want via /etc/syslog.conf. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris boot process

2009-05-06 Thread James Carlson
mgetty instead ...) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 10/08 install Crossbow

2009-05-05 Thread James Carlson
...@opensolaris.org) to get more accurate information. For Solaris 8 i have read that there is Solaris 8 Migration Assistant work on nevada ? Yes, I think that does exist. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 10/08 install Crossbow

2009-05-04 Thread James Carlson
recommend contacting your Sun support representative and asking about CR 6790102. If you don't have a support contract, then I'd recommend sticking with OpenSolaris instead. You could upgrade your system to SX:CE in a relatively simple manner. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] b111a: Power Management and nwam-issue ?

2009-04-30 Thread James Carlson
willing to build your own binaries, you'll need to wait for the fix to percolate through the system; probably around 4 weeks -- but it'll certainly allow you to pick up the fix as soon as it's available rather than waiting many months between the 'stable' releases. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10 Startup

2009-04-29 Thread James Carlson
to buttons and dials is long since obsolete. If it's something else, then please specify. (And you may want to use smf-inter...@opensolaris.org instead of this list; your question seems to be about SMF in particular, not about OpenSolaris in general.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] b111a: Power Management and nwam-issue ?

2009-04-28 Thread James Carlson
like CR 6743929. A fix for it has been code reviewed and should be integrated some time soon now. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N

Re: [osol-discuss] uname -a ... 32bit vs 64bit

2009-04-27 Thread James Carlson
./configure fall over and die. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] how to check the time stamp on Solaris?

2009-04-14 Thread James Carlson
the date by using the date command at all. If you're connected to any half-way reasonable network, you should have access to an NTP server somewhere. Set up /etc/inet/ntp.conf (see /etc/inet/ntp.client for an example), and then svcadm enable ntp. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] how to check the time stamp on Solaris?

2009-04-14 Thread James Carlson
James Carlson writes: Amy writes: To change the date on my Solaris computer, I log in as superuser, and I use the date command to change the date. But how do I know if the date was later changed by someone else, and then, changed back again? The simplest answer is to make sure you

Re: [osol-discuss] gettext

2009-04-13 Thread James Carlson
Hanma writes: checking for library containing acl_trivial... -lsec That part looks right. /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC--mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2-o msgcmp msgcmp-msgcmp.o libgettextsrc.la gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -o .libs/msgcmp msgcmp-msgcmp.o ./.libs/libgettextsrc.so

Re: [osol-discuss] gettext

2009-04-13 Thread James Carlson
with an installer script, and you'll need to run that. Still other software is shipped as System V packages, and you'll need to run pkgadd with -d to pick up that directory. Most .tar.gz files have a README or INSTALL file with detailed instructions located somewhere in the archive. -- James

Re: [osol-discuss] Can mysql be slower in a zone?

2009-04-10 Thread James Carlson
be noticably different in performance. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] network autocomfiguration daemon question

2009-04-09 Thread James Carlson
. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole

2009-04-07 Thread James Carlson
to the old 'vold' is gone. Just plain gone. Removed by PSARC/2005/672. It is no more. It is an ex-daemon. ;-} RFEs to it are moot. The Tamarack project is the replacement for it. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole

2009-04-07 Thread James Carlson
is just not the same thing as paid support. If you need paid support, there are solutions for that, but arguments on opensolaris-discuss probably won't get there. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-04-06 Thread James Carlson
Alexander Vlasov writes: Have you tried aptitude? I sure have. Having suffered long enough with apt and aptitude on Debian is what eventually drove me to convert my home system from Linux to Solaris. :-/ -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] disconnecting hdd from zfs mirror hangs whole system

2009-04-06 Thread James Carlson
the bugster bugreport, whoever is reading this thread please post the bug id here. Knowing your SunID it would take 5 minutes. Bugster supports reported email as search criterion. It's CR 6826247. I don't see where anything was deleted. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

[osol-discuss] fun with aptitude [was Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun]

2009-04-06 Thread James Carlson
as the most annoying sort of chaos. I had no problems searching for packages. I did have problems with random packages breaking over time. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212

Re: [osol-discuss] Clean Install ZFS root SNV_110 Panics at Boot

2009-04-03 Thread James Carlson
(with 'e'), select the kernel entry, and edit (again, 'e') to add -m milestone=none (for instance). -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N

Re: [osol-discuss] libumem.so problem in Solaris 8

2009-04-02 Thread James Carlson
. But to answer the question, I wasn't aware of an official libumem backport. Either way the error is saying your're trying to use a 32bit lib with a 64bit binary. Try /usr/lib/sparcv9/libumem.so instead. Or just leave out the path. LD_PRELOAD=libumem.so.1 should work. -- James Carlson

Re: [osol-discuss] useradd

2009-04-01 Thread James Carlson
after -A? Please give me an example. I searched everywhere, but i can't find what to write. Did you try looking at the auth_attr(4) man page? An example might be: useradd -A solaris.admin.usermgr.pswd passfixer -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] DHCP obtained address random released

2009-04-01 Thread James Carlson
defect.opensolaris.org to file a bug. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] Does wvdial work for OpenSolaris?

2009-03-30 Thread James Carlson
wanted a project, porting that stuff over and contributing it would probably be a good one. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781

Re: [osol-discuss] useradd

2009-03-30 Thread James Carlson
Hanma writes: how to use useradd comand in terminal? i can't understand how in manual. can you give me example? # useradd newuser -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212

[osol-discuss] package naming [was RE: Which Samba packages to use and, what do Usr, Kernel, Root packages me]

2009-03-28 Thread James Carlson
be worthwhile. And since I have simple control over my own path by setting $PATH, the GNU by default thing never really bugged me. I was more harmed by ancient (and awful) scripts of mine finally going kablooie and forcing me to fix the old bugs they had. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] General THANKLESS- and RESPECTLESSness towards Joerg Schilling (and others, which I leave out of this msg.) __/__ Was: Emergency project to rescue Opensolaris from IBM

2009-03-25 Thread James Carlson
community, and I think all the parties concerned (excepting perhaps Jennifer herself) already know that. Its not worth getting too upset over, I think. Indeed. procmail works great for solving problems like this. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Which Samba packages to use and, what do Usr, Kernel, Root packages me

2009-03-24 Thread James Carlson
of this arcana, though, is probably fading in meaning. Sun's OpenSolaris distribution no longer bases the system on System V packaging. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212

Re: [osol-discuss] IBM and Auschwitz __/__ Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-23 Thread James Carlson
Martin Bochnig writes: Be also aware, that IBM supported Nazi-Germany's dead-camps, by selling the needed information technology to them: Many thanks from all of us for Godwinning this pointless thread. It needed to be done. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law -- James Carlson

Re: [osol-discuss] IBM and Auschwitz __/__ Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-23 Thread James Carlson
ольга крыжановская writes: On 3/23/09, James Carlson james.d.carl...@sun.com wrote: Martin Bochnig writes: Be also aware, that IBM supported Nazi-Germany's dead-camps, by selling the needed information technology to them: Many thanks from all of us for Godwinning this pointless

Re: [osol-discuss] IBM and Auschwitz __/__ Re: Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-23 Thread James Carlson
glaringly off-topic. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 ___ opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] wireless browsing is slow

2009-03-20 Thread James Carlson
to be a biggie. There are fixes for problems in many of the wired drivers as well, but none looks as interesting. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757

Re: [osol-discuss] files newer than a certain hours/minutes

2009-03-16 Thread James Carlson
just invoke GNU find as gfind on OpenSolaris, and, just as on Linux, it has the -cmin option. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-12 Thread James Carlson
. As Dave said, your best bet is to feed ZFS a whole disk, and let it do as it will with it. I had some trouble getting advice about making raidz on partitions, probably because it isn't the best usage of raidz or even of zfs. Indeed. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl

Re: [osol-discuss] Regarding Pstack

2009-03-12 Thread James Carlson
, as the compiler tends to reuse registers. You need to look at the actual assembly code to tease this information apart.) This probably isn't terribly interesting information unless you're looking at the code in a debugger, such as mdb. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Copying files and folders

2009-03-12 Thread James Carlson
should fix the problem. (For what it's worth, lack of support of -q in the default /usr/bin/grep is just a bug, not an intentional feature.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02

Re: [osol-discuss] Any groups working on consol developement

2009-03-09 Thread James Carlson
from community can offer help, that will be great. Thank you. I'm not sure which project you mean... something here? http://opensolaris.org/os/projects/#portal http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/vconsole/ -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Link to phoronix benchmark on opensolaris.com

2009-03-04 Thread James Carlson
... :) It looks like something that's auto-generated to me, not something that was put there intentionally. In any event, aren't we opensolaris.org here and not opensolaris.com? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris.org not responding

2009-03-03 Thread James Carlson
sites. You can also subscribe to mailing lists by using the -request address. Just send a subscription request to: website-discuss-requ...@opensolaris.org -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1

Re: [osol-discuss] EADDRINUSE error even after setting SO_REUSEADDR

2009-03-03 Thread James Carlson
? At a guess, you might not have set the socket option before doing the bind() call, as is generally required for TCP-speaking servers. But that's just a guess. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1

Re: [osol-discuss] Basic questions about pkg

2009-03-02 Thread James Carlson
Harry Putnam writes: James Carlson james.d.carl...@sun.com writes: There aren't any. Should there be? I'm not telling pkg where to connect to on the command line. Yet it knows. Its getting information somewhere... in some sense that is a configuration. There are no files

Re: [osol-discuss] Basic questions about pkg

2009-02-28 Thread James Carlson
-- by making your authority be this: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] emacs under solaris suggested keybindings please

2009-02-20 Thread James Carlson
-keysym 'meta) I haven't found that the above works for the odd changes in the Xorg server that occurred between 106 and 107. After a bunch of trial and error (mostly error), I found that the following, though, does restore normal operation: xmodmap -e clear mod4 -- James Carlson, Solaris

[osol-discuss] what are all these versions anyway? [was Re: emacs under solaris suggested keybindings please]

2009-02-20 Thread James Carlson
of the weekly builds. The 101b build was the one released as OpenSolaris 2008.11. There'll likely be another such stable release in a few months for those who aren't on the dev train. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris install on x4150?

2009-02-17 Thread James Carlson
(inconsistently) requires all privileges in order to open the DLD control node early in boot. The fix (integrated into build 109) is to make nwamd open the device using all privileges (sigh). -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

Re: [osol-discuss] Build error (dmake: Warning: Target `all.targ' not remade because of errors)

2009-02-05 Thread James Carlson
in genunix, but doesn't show what actual build rule failed or how it failed. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] opensolaris + pppoe

2008-12-17 Thread James Carlson
run it with the debug option, and post any issues to networking-disc...@opensolaris.org. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking james.d.carl...@sun.com Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] New community based development list

2008-12-10 Thread James Carlson
possibly benefit from such a result, even the original requester. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] SUNWgnome-im-client breaks beadm

2008-12-09 Thread James Carlson
anything to do with any such distinction. Get a life, use windows ;) I think you're missing at least the word or in that statement ... -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212

Re: [osol-discuss] [on-discuss] New community based development list

2008-12-09 Thread James Carlson
Shawn Walker writes: If have no idea why you think you can't do all of that using opensolaris.org, but good luck. I think the original complaint is the need for code review before ON integration. It's too slow. But +1 to both of your comments. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] where to file bugs for s10 u6?

2008-12-01 Thread James Carlson
automated, and we have to triage the bugs arriving through there by hand. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] Using NWAM to connect to secured wifi networks

2008-11-26 Thread James Carlson
Roman Strobl writes: is there a way to connect using NWAM to a secured wifi network that doesn't broadcast it's SSID? See: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5048 It's a bug we're currently fixing. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] Using NWAM to connect to secured wifi networks

2008-11-26 Thread James Carlson
Roman Strobl writes: It's a bug we're currently fixing. Thanks! I assume that this will not get fixed for 2008.11, right? 2008.11 is already out the door. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442

Re: [osol-discuss] Any xemacs users out there? I could use some advice wrt packaging xemacs for OpenSolaris

2008-11-24 Thread James Carlson
tools Sun has for reading from and sending to newsgroups, I'll post there (I haven't read news groups sine the late 80's:-) Too bad. :-/ -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [accessibility-discuss] I have some questions]

2008-11-14 Thread James Carlson
programs feature for picking software? Sure. On the OpenSolaris distribution, that's the pkg(1) command, and in the GNOME desktop, there are GUI tools under System-Administration for package management and upgrades. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: [accessibility-discuss] I have some questions]

2008-11-14 Thread James Carlson
Glenn Lagasse writes: Several of us have been working on fixing this for a few weeks now. We're mostly 'there', just a few loose ends to tie up as it were. The formal release of 2008.11 should install on systems with only 512M of ram. Cool! -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking

Re: [osol-discuss] Seeking OpenSolaris help for Fluendo

2008-11-06 Thread James Carlson
installation method. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-28 Thread James Carlson
, but I what you're reporting doesn't make sense to me. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_99 jumpstart issue

2008-10-27 Thread James Carlson
Tom Albers writes: My jumpstart no longer works as of build snv_99. Build snv_98 works fine. Problem occurs on both SPARC and x64 architectures. Is there an existing CR and a workaround? It might be CR 6760873 ... but the bug system seems to be down. :- -- James Carlson, Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread James Carlson
... there'd be no real impediment to doing it. ;-} I recommend using something else to perform whatever test it is that you're performing -- or find a way to avoid the test entirely. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive

Re: [osol-discuss] /etc/release on Solaris Express

2008-10-27 Thread James Carlson
Ian Collins writes: James Carlson wrote: If we wanted to change these four lines to read: Sorry We Broke You ... there'd be no real impediment to doing it. ;-} Is Sun relocating to Redmond? :) No. I'm just trying to make it really clear that this file

Re: [osol-discuss] [OT] was Re: The future of the IPS system

2008-10-24 Thread James Carlson
) is an issue. Do we restrict projects to the least common denominator? Somehow abstract packaging away? Select one mechanism as reference and convert everything over? We probably need something like an OpenSolaris-wide policy here. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] sun qfe card

2008-10-20 Thread James Carlson
, different package) are supported on x86 yet. These two are CRs 6342827 and 6401215. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2008-10-20 Thread James Carlson
and fragile one. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] crontab

2008-10-20 Thread James Carlson
to the system console: /usr/X11/bin/xterm -C -e /usr/bin/sleep 864000 -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677

Re: [osol-discuss] ISC DHCPD problem (3.1.1 version).

2008-10-17 Thread James Carlson
unlikely to be what you want. It'll block the SMF start method from completing, and when that times out, it'll go into maintenance state. Remove the '-d' (just use syslog for debugging) and you should be fine. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems

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